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stillsostrangeShatter your illusions of love?
That Unnorse Book (Which is turning into something more like Big Gay MacHamlet. Moar ghosts! Moar witches!)
Words today: 2194 (New words. That doesn't count rewriting two scenes from Chapter 1)
Words total: 7728
Reason for stopping: End of chapter 2
Darling: “If you have any advice for me, swan of blood, I would welcome it.” Kennings! I love kennings! Kennings for everyone!
Mean things: Still not enough queening, politics, creepy visitations in the middle of the night
Named things: The capital of Riven, one advisor, one family, one guard, one captain, one ship
Things still to be named: Not-Elsinore, other families
In addition to the joy of kennings, I realized that any given character might have up to five names: first name, patro/matronymic, aett-name, epithet, and title. That won't get me any hate mail at all...
I've rewritten Chapter 1 three times now. The first attempt was poorly paced, and the protag wasn't doing much protaggy--mostly she was being passive and not making decisions, which isn't a great hook. In the second draft I gave her stuff to do, and that helped, but something was still wrong. Finally I realized that there wasn't enough forward motion, and part of the problem was that the MCs, having already made a decision, were wasting valuable page time waffling over that decision. I hate that when I encounter it in other people's books, so I had to kill it with a stick. In draft three I skipped the waffle stage and opened with the forward motion. I feel better about it now, so hopefully this version will stick.
According to Viking Answer Lady, Fetbreiðr--"foot-broad"--was the kenning for a real sword. This means Vikings had buster-swords.
Determined as I am to end the ugly dust bowl in my back yard, today I bought 6.5 cubic yards of pea gravel, which will be dumped in my driveway on Thursday. Then the trick will be carting it to the back before my HOA has an apoplexy.
That Unnorse Book (Which is turning into something more like Big Gay MacHamlet. Moar ghosts! Moar witches!)
Words today: 2194 (New words. That doesn't count rewriting two scenes from Chapter 1)
Words total: 7728
Reason for stopping: End of chapter 2
Darling: “If you have any advice for me, swan of blood, I would welcome it.” Kennings! I love kennings! Kennings for everyone!
Mean things: Still not enough queening, politics, creepy visitations in the middle of the night
Named things: The capital of Riven, one advisor, one family, one guard, one captain, one ship
Things still to be named: Not-Elsinore, other families
In addition to the joy of kennings, I realized that any given character might have up to five names: first name, patro/matronymic, aett-name, epithet, and title. That won't get me any hate mail at all...
I've rewritten Chapter 1 three times now. The first attempt was poorly paced, and the protag wasn't doing much protaggy--mostly she was being passive and not making decisions, which isn't a great hook. In the second draft I gave her stuff to do, and that helped, but something was still wrong. Finally I realized that there wasn't enough forward motion, and part of the problem was that the MCs, having already made a decision, were wasting valuable page time waffling over that decision. I hate that when I encounter it in other people's books, so I had to kill it with a stick. In draft three I skipped the waffle stage and opened with the forward motion. I feel better about it now, so hopefully this version will stick.
According to Viking Answer Lady, Fetbreiðr--"foot-broad"--was the kenning for a real sword. This means Vikings had buster-swords.
Determined as I am to end the ugly dust bowl in my back yard, today I bought 6.5 cubic yards of pea gravel, which will be dumped in my driveway on Thursday. Then the trick will be carting it to the back before my HOA has an apoplexy.
